patch "mei: prevent unloading mei hw modules while the device is opened." added to char-misc-linus

This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled

mei: prevent unloading mei hw modules while the device is opened.

to my char-misc git tree which can be found at
git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/gregkh/char-misc.git
in the char-misc-linus branch.

The patch will show up in the next release of the linux-next tree (usually sometime within the next 24 hours during the week.)

The patch will hopefully also be merged in Linus's tree for the next -rc kernel release.

If you have any questions about this process, please let me know.

From: Tomas Winkler <[email protected]>
Date: Thu, 18 Jun 2015 11:41:03 +0300
Subject: mei: prevent unloading mei hw modules while the device is opened.

chrdev_open() increases reference counter on cdev->owner. Instead of assigning the owner to mei subsystem, the owner has to be set to the underlaying HW module (mei_me or mei_txe), so once the device is opened the HW module cannot be unloaded.

---
 drivers/misc/mei/main.c | 2 +-
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)

index 8eb0a9500a90..e9513d651cd3 100644
@@ -682,7 +682,7 @@ int mei_register(struct mei_device *dev, struct device *parent)
 	/* Fill in the data structures */
 	devno = MKDEV(MAJOR(mei_devt), dev->minor);
 	cdev_init(&dev->cdev, &mei_fops);
-	dev->cdev.owner = mei_fops.owner;
+	dev->cdev.owner = parent->driver->owner;
 
 	/* Add the device */
 	ret = cdev_add(&dev->cdev, devno, 1);

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